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St. Croix
Soccer Club
P.O. Box 181
Stillwater, MN 55082 stcroixsoccer@yahoo.com |
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2008 MYSA
Winter Symposium
The Minnesota Youth Soccer Association (MYSA) had their annual Winter
Symposium February 1st and 2nd at the Sheraton in Bloomington, MN. This
year’s program offered coaching and administrative sessions to assist all
clubs, either big or small, and different types of coaches, from
recreational to competitive.
St. Croix S.C. had several representatives: to observe the coaching sessions
they included, Joaquin Izquierdo, Brad Gombold, Russell Schwoueiler, as well
as myself (Nathan Klonecki). The coaching sessions focused on understanding
the technical, tactical, and psychological challenges of soccer from
in-house to competitive soccer players. The sessions also taught techniques
to develop training sessions for all ability levels and methods to teach
skills in a fun environment.
MYSA has had several changes this year. They kicked off their winter
symposium with their new Coaching Director and Player Development, John
Curtis. John has been a part of MYSA for 11 years and has been the associate
coaching director for the past 10 years.
The first night of the symposium started with coaching sessions from several
prominent people in the game of soccer including Charlie Cooke and Dr. John
Thomas. Charlie Cooke, a co-founder of Coerver soccer and the Director of
Coerver Coaching USA, had several training session during the weekend. His
sessions included information on technical skill for youth players and elite
player development. Dr. John Thomas, the Assistant Director of coaching for
US Youth Soccer, had several sessions over the weekend as well. Dr. Thomas’
sessions focused on U8 / U10 activities and on having a defense strategy:
defenders defend and attack out of the back.
John Curtis’ session was
Incorporating the Four Pillars of
Soccer. His
training session was based on finding the windows of opportunity. He worked
with a talented group of U15 boys and added several new ideas and concepts
to the windows exercise. Check out this session on the SCSC website on the
Coaches section.
The administrative sessions had useful information not only for the St.
Croix S.C. organization, but for individual teams as well. Representing our
club at these sessions was our Administrative Director, Donna Luttinen, as
well as other team managers. They also participated in the
State Cup
Informational Meeting. For further information, check out the symposium
materials at:
http://www.mnyouthsoccer.org/events/symposia.cfm
The symposium had wonderful new information for everyone so please check it
out. The St. Croix S.C. hopes to utilize this information for a successful
2008 season!
Nathan Klonecki
St. Croix Soccer Club
Director of Coaching and Player Development |
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Coaches
The club is now assessing interested coaches for
placement with Summer 2008 teams. Contact Nathan Klonecki, Director of
Coaching, if you are interested.
The Club will offer licensing courses for all
coaches who are looking for an “E” or “D” license to improve their knowledge
of the game. These sessions are tentatively scheduled for March and April.
The Director of Coaching supervises all coach training, selection and
evaluation. One of his responsibilities is recruiting quality coaches.
Parents who would like to coach in any capacity are encouraged to complete
licensing courses. |
Pre-Game Prep
For AWAY games: You will need player
passes and a completed MYSA match lineup form. Give everything to the
referee before the game, and he or she will return the player passes
afterward.
For HOME games: You
will need cash for the referees (please have correct change), player passes,
a completed MYSA match lineup form and a stamped envelope addressed to the
east district director (address labels were included in your league packet
you picked up at the East District Coach Meeting). Give everything to the
referee before the game, and he or she will return the player passes after
the game. |
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A Note from Nathan Klonecki, Director of
Coaching
Click here to read the
Club's Coaching
Philosophy |
Attention Coaches
E-mail your tournament successes (results,
photos, etc.) to
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